About
What Sports Progression Hub Is
Sports Progression Hub is a library of structured development guides for young athletes, their parents and their coaches, covering multiple sports from foundation level through to academy and performance.
The guides are frameworks first. They explain what matters at a given age and stage, why it matters, and how to approach it, then show what that looks like in practice.
How the library is organised
Everything is built around two questions: who you are, and where you are.
By role. Player, parent and coach guides are written separately, because the same stage of development looks entirely different depending on where you are standing. A player needs to know what to work on. A parent needs to know how to support without adding pressure. A coach needs consistent standards across a squad.
By stage. Guides are age-specific rather than one size fits all. What a nine year old needs is not a simplified version of what a sixteen year old needs, it is a different thing altogether.
What is inside a guide
Every guide sets out the principles for its stage and role, then shows how they are applied.
Player guides include drills and applied examples for working on each area.
Parent guides include conversation frameworks for the moments that matter most, including how to handle the drive home after a difficult game.
Coach guides include full session plans across the key development areas, so a principle like ball mastery comes with a worked session showing how to build it into training.
Framework guides
The core of the library. Each framework covers a single sport, age group and role, and maps development across the areas that matter at that stage: technical foundations, physical development, game understanding, and mindset.
Frameworks come in three levels. Foundation covers the essentials for the stage. Development goes further into how progression actually happens. Performance is the most detailed, written for players in demanding environments and the adults supporting them.
Performance support guides
In-depth guides covering specific areas of athlete development across more than twenty categories, including nutrition, mindset, recovery, injury prevention, strength and conditioning, competition preparation and long-term wellbeing.
These work alongside any framework and apply across sports. Where a framework tells you what to prioritise at your stage, a support guide goes deep on a single subject.
Free development resources
A growing library of articles covering development pathways, training habits, mindset, and supporting young athletes, available to everyone at no cost. Alongside it, a free Parents Support Guide introduces the methodology and how to use it.
What the guides are built on
Every guide is grounded in long-term athlete development principles, the same body of thinking used across academy and high performance environments, translated into language that works for a parent on a Saturday morning or a fourteen year old reading on their phone.
Content is written in plain English, structured for clarity, and reviewed against a consistent house standard before release.
What they are not
They are not drill libraries. The practical content is there to show how a principle is applied, not to hand over an endless bank of exercises without context.
They do not set training loads, session frequency or long-term timelines. Those depend on the individual athlete, their environment and the people who know them.
They are not medical or clinical advice, and where a subject touches on health or injury, the guides say plainly that qualified professionals should lead.
Format and access
All guides are digital and delivered immediately after purchase, formatted to read well on a phone, tablet or desktop, and designed to be returned to across a season rather than read once.
The library continues to expand across sports, age groups and subject areas.